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The Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking at Bard combines the digitized Hannah Arendt Archive with Bard’s Hannah Arendt Library. It is on the foundation of Bard’s unique scholarly resources, its rich personal connection with Hannah Arendt (indeed, she is buried on campus), and Bard’s tradition of engaged interdisciplinary scholarship that the Center is building a unique space to pursue Arendt’s vision of returning thinking to politics.

The mission of the Center is to foster thinking about problems and crises that reflect the insight and independence that Hannah Arendt brought to bear on political and ethical themes from anti-Semitism and totalitarianism to thoughtless consumerism and lying in politics. On the major issues of our time—from terror and torture to dissent and the environment—the Arendt Center will bring established public intellectuals and young fellows to Bard to try to, as Arendt would have it, comprehend these events. The effort is not to divine what Hannah Arendt would do or say; instead, it is to take Arendt’s singular and much needed approach to political questions as a spur to rigorous, daring, and creative engagement. [More]

Announcements

Book Publication Reading and Celebration

Book Publication Reading and Celebration Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics

Come to a Celebration of the Arendt Center's new collection at Book Culture, the best remaining independent bookseller in Manhattan. 

Speakers include Thomas Keenan, George Kateb, Roger Berkowitz.

Thursday, Nov. 12
536 W 112th St (b/w Broadway and Columbus)
7pm





Website: http://www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/community/eventcal.html?sid=6665

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Imperialism, Goldman Sachs Style
Published: October 22, 2009
Hannah Arendt’s main concern was understanding the evils of Nazism and Communism, but her writings on imperialism are eerily applicable to the financial crisis.

Website: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/us/22iht-letter.html

Upcoming Conference

Burden of Our Times:
The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis

October 16-17, 2009
Bard College
Website: http://www.bard.edu/burdenofourtimes/

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